Verse 1: G Pushing through the market square Em So many mothers sighing A News had just come over C We had five years left to cry in G News guy wept and told us Em Earth was really dying A Cried so much his face was wet C Then I knew he was not lying G I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies Em I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's A My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare C I had to cram so many things to store everything in there Bridge: Am C And all the fat, skinny people Am C And all the tall, short people G C And all the nobody people D And all the somebody people Am C I never thought I'd need so many people Verse 2: G a girl my age went off her head Em Hit some tiny children A If the Black hadn't have pulled her off C I think she would have killed them G a soldier with a broken arm Em Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac A a cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest C And a queer threw up at the sight of that G I think I saw you in an icecream parlor Em Drinking milk shakes cold and long A Smiling and waving and looking so fine C Don't think you knew you were in this song G And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor Em And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there A Your face, your race, the way that you talk C I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk Chorus: G We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Em Five years, what a surprise A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot C Five years, that's all we've got G We've got five years, what a surprise Em Five years, stuck on my eyes A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot C Five years, that's all we've got G We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Em Five years, what a surprise A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot C Five years, that's all we've got G We've got five years, what a surprise Em We've got five years, stuck on my eyes A We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot C Five years, that's all we've got G Five years Em Five years A Five years C Five years Outro -Fade Out-: G
